The project, located in northern Spain (Galicia), is about the recovery of a former hospital in the city of Baiona, taking advantage of its central location becomes an important space for its neighbors., full_html
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Sala de lectura principal. Biblioteca pública y Archivo histórico por Murado&Elvira Architecture. Fotografía © Imagen subliminal
Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos awarded the First Prize in the International Architectural Competition for the Archive of the Avant-garde of the Marzona Collection in Dresden (Germany)., full_html
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Archiv der Avantgarde, Interior view. Image courtesy of Nieto Sobejano
The library, one part of a larger cultural complex masterplan, bases itself around a spherical auditorium which, coupled with the main atrium, forms an eye that gives panoramas of the interior space and reflects the beautiful park in front of the…
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Tianjin Binhai Library by MVRDV / TUPDI. Photograph by Ossip van Duivenbode
The new Microlibrary Bima is located at Taman Bima in Bandung, Indonesia, and although its size is not very large, it holds great possibilities, and shows us bright and fresh ideas. , full_html
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‘Microlibrary Bima’: 2000-Ice-Cream-Bucket-Project by SHAU. Photograph © Sanrok studio/ SHAU
A short video about the library of Tama University, Japan, by Toyo Ito. It is always interesting to hear the live voice of the characters, which you can hear in this video., full_html
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Tama University Library
​Bibliothèque Alexis de Tocqueville, the new public library for the metropolitan region of Caen la mer in Normandy, France, opened to the public on January 13 in the presence of the French Minister of Culture Audrey Azoulay. Located on the Presqu’…
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Façade. Bibliothèque Alexis de Tocqueville by OMA. Photograph by Delfino Sisto Legnani and Marco Cappelletti, Courtesy of OMA
Tabanlıoğlu Architects, known for producing internationally relevant, contemporary architecture across the world has embarked on the restoration works of Istanbul’s oldest and the largest library, the Beyazit Public Library., full_html
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Beyazıt State Library by Tabanlioglu Architects, view of the book shelves from the inside. Photograph © Emre Dörter
Wright & Wright Architects have this week unveiled designs for a new building to house the internationally renowned Lambeth Palace Library. The practice was awarded the commission to design the new complex following a highly competitive design…
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The north approach to the new library building from Lambeth Palace Road © Wright & Wright Architects
The New York Public Library has selected Mecanoo to lead the renovation of its iconic main building on Fifth Avenue and a smaller branch nearby, after years and proposals by Foster + Partners. , full_html
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Schwarzman Building. Photography © Jonathan Blanc. Image courtesy of Mecanoo
World Monuments Fund (WMF) announced last Thursday, that the project to restore Alvar Aalto's seminal Viipuri Library in Vyborg, Russia, which took two challenging decades to complete, has been awarded the "2014 World Monuments Fund/Knoll Modernism…
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The Central City Alvar Aalto Library, Vyborg. Image Courtesy of The Finnish Committee for the Restoration of Viipuri Library